Red Bull;Phoenix/Cockpit;Indoor Professional;Outdoor Professional
Speech prefix(es)
Cox.
Words
277
Characters
1398
Typicality
0.22 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A20088
BritDrama no.
1997
Cluster
Cluster 7 — Pedants, satyrs & Latin wit
Important excerpts
Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 7 (sicut, istis, quasi, crites, animal, quatuor…). Matches are highlighted.
nostrils in a strong scent of your embracings: are you of Court Signior? No Signior of the Court City, I smile, I assure you Signior, you are to us of the Court but Animals You are held but as shooing horns to wait on great Lords heals. You are our Apes. No sooner leap our Ladies into a fashion, but your Wives are ready to creep into
Full speech
I have not met a Signior, at whom mine own eyes (as if roasted enough) did ever burn more in desire to fly out: so that whither to recoil or advance on, I am between Hawk and Buzzard. Your acquaintance is a Limbeck, out of which runneth a perfumed water, bathing my nostrils in a strong scent of your embracings: are you of Court Signior? No Signior of the Court City, I smile, I assure you Signior, you are to us of the Court but Animals You are held but as shooing horns to wait on great Lords heals. You are our Apes. No sooner leap our Ladies into a fashion, but your Wives are ready to creep into the same. Give way with your poor scull to our oars: for I tell thee Signior you of the city, are the flatten milk of the king dome, and we of the Court, the Cream. Be not too loud; though you are good ringers in the City, for most of you have bells at your doors. Be temporate: I will show you your City Cinqui pace, you bear, swear, tear, rear, and wear; you bear the Tankard, swear shop oaths, tear money out of debtors throats, rear rich estates, wear good clothes, but carry your Conscience in torn pockets. Tell me Signior, tell me why in the City does a harmless sign hang at the door of a subtle Nicodemus sitting in a shop? Come, come, You are Acorns, and your Sons the Prodigals that eat you up. I will cross my self when I owe money to a City's zen, and pass by his door. Dear Signior.
Plot summary
Plot — Match Me in London
It is midnight, and Tormiella is missing from her father Malevento’s house. He wonders if she is visiting Gazetto, her fiancé, but in fact she has eloped to Seville with the man she loves, Cordolente. There they get married and open a shop. The bawd Dildoman recommends her to the King, who comes to the shop on the pretext of buying a glove. Tormiella is taken to court and her escort disposed of by a ruse; Dildoman tries to persuade her to yield to the King. The Queen becomes jealous of Tormiella and attempts to stab her. Cordolente realizes he has been cuckolded; he and Malevento are both offered places at court, but only Malevento accepts. Don John intends to depose the King, his brother, with the help of the Portuguese nobility. He persuades his doctor to poison Don Valasco, the Queen’s father, having first told him that the King is having an affair with Tormiella. Valasco eats some grapes, falls sick, and is then poisoned with the medicine the doctor administers; Don John sends the body home. In fact, it was only a sleeping potion, and the King confronts Don John with the living Valasco; when their quarrel escalates to the point of a duel, the King puts Don John under house arrest. He discovers documentary proof of the conspiracy, and sends Valasco to supervise Don John’s execution, which is to be done in private and using a method selected by Don John himself from an illustrated book of deaths. Valasco reports him dead. The King uses Martines, who is implicated in Don John’s plot, to facilitate a charge of adultery against the Queen: he writes her a love-letter to the King’s dictation and delivers it, only to be arrested. The King engages Gazetto, who has come to Seville in disguise, to murder both the Queen and Cordolente, thereby clearing his path to marry Tormiella. Gazetto has scruples about killing the Queen, but is quite ready to dispose of his successful rival in love. The King hears that Tormiella has gone mad; then Gazetto reports that the Queen is dead. The King intends to go through with marrying Tormiella anyway, and Gazetto offers to cure her. When he visits her disguised as a doctor, he learns that the madness is only a ruse to facilitate her escape from court with Cordolente. Gazetto reveals his identity to her, and she agrees to kill the King on their wedding night. Warned by Gazetto, Cordolente tries to kill Tormiella before the marriage can take place, but is prevented; however, thunder stops the wedding, and the King comes to his…